---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000028917-25-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DDS"
cik: "0000028917"
company_name: "DILLARD'S, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T19:37:09.897856+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Warren A. Stephens resigns from Dillard's board to become U.S. Ambassador to UK

## Summary
- Stephens resigned effective immediately after confirmation as Ambassador to the UK.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with Dillard's operations, policies, or practices.
- He will not stand for re-election at the 2025 annual meeting.
- Board size temporarily reduced; no replacement announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000028917-25-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DDS
- cik: 0000028917
- company_name: DILLARD'S, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/28917/000002891725000008/0000028917-25-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/28917/000002891725000008/dds-20250429x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000028917-25-000008
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000028917-25-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000028917-25-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Warren A. Stephens resigned as Director at DILLARD'S, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 29, 2025, Warren A. Stephens informed Dillard’s, Inc. (the “Company”) that he was resigning from his role as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company effective immediately following his confirmation as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom and that he would not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/28917/000002891725000008/0000028917-25-000008-index.htm

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